Édouard Chevreux
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Édouard Chevreux (10 November 1846, in
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– 10 January 1931, in Bône) was a French
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. Chevreux specialised in the study of
Amphipoda Amphipoda () is an order (biology), order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods () range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 10,700 amphip ...
, an order of
malacostraca Malacostraca is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans behind insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders. Its members, the malacostracans, display a great diversity of body forms and include crab ...
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crustacean Crustaceans (from Latin meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are invertebrate animals that constitute one group of arthropods that are traditionally a part of the subphylum Crustacea (), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthrop ...
s. With Louis Fage (1883–1964), he was co-author of the section on "Amphipodes" in the ''Faune de France''. The genera '' Chevreuxius'' and '' Chevreuxiella'' are named after him, as are numerous
crustacean Crustaceans (from Latin meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are invertebrate animals that constitute one group of arthropods that are traditionally a part of the subphylum Crustacea (), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthrop ...
species.


Selected writings

* ''Sur le Gammarus berilloni catta'' * ''Voyage de la goëlette "Melita" aux Canaries et au Sénégal, 1889–1890'', (1891) – Voyage of the schooner "Melita" to the
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and
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, 1889–1890. * ''Amphipodes provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle (1885–1888)'', (1900) – Amphipods from the campaigns of the "Hirondelle" (1885–1888). * ''Paracyphocaris praedator; type d'un nouveau genre de Lysianassidae'', (1905) – "''Paracyphocaris praedator''"; the type of a new genus of
Lysianassidae Lysianassidae is a family (biology), family of marine Amphipoda, amphipods, containing the following genera: *''Acontiostoma'' Stebbing, 1888 *''Alibrotus'' Milne-Edwards, 1840 *''Allogaussia'' Schellenberg, 1926 *''Ambasia'' Boeck, 1871 *''Amba ...
. * ''Amphipodes'', (1906) – Amphipods * ''Crustacés amphipodes'', (1906) – Amphipod crustaceans * ''Orchomenella lobata: nouvelle espèce d'amphipode des régions arctiques'', (1907) – "Orchomenella lobata", a new species of amphipod from the Arctic regions. * ''Campagnes de la Melita; les amphipodes d'Algérie et de Tunisie'', (1910) – Campaigns of "Melita"; amphipods from a voyage to
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and
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. * ''Amphipodes provenant des campagnes scientifiques du prince Albert Ier de Monaco'' – Amphipods from scientific cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco.IDREF.fr
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chevreux, Edouard French carcinologists French zoologists 1846 births 1931 deaths Scientists from Paris